Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Steven Pinker
397 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0753810255
ISBN13:
Language: English
Publish: 946713600000
LanguageLinguisticsNeuroscienceNonfictionPhilosophyPsychologyReferenceScienceUnfinishedWriting
In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single construction from a dozen viewpoints, proposing that the essence of language is a mental dictionary of memorized words, and a mental grammar of creative rules.